Some progress: I connected 5 consec. times while not on NNT. Response was very slow - 30 to 60 seconds. I got the empty feeder "no tasks avail" message each time - no work yet, no tasks for over 24 hours. Server Status and Cricket still look funny, task page still a problem. Another Fred
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All server communications started working fine for me and I haven't had a failed connection since about 1500utc on the 29th (8am in Berkeley). Whatever the problem was, seems to have been kicked.Linux laptop:
record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up)

And now at.. approaching 0600utc on the 30th, my cache has been replenished with 26 APs. Most had multiple HTTP errors but eventually came through, but I don't think I've gotten an AP in the past month that didn't get an HTTP error on the first try. Second try usually goes through. One of them this time around needed to be kicked 11 times.Linux laptop:
record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up)